Curtain-pole ring



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Patented Ap 26, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM r. HILnoF SoMnavILLn, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURTAIN-POLE RING.

EEPECIFECATIQN Vorzniing part o1 Letters Patent No. 361,873, dated April 26, 1887.

Applicaiion filed December 14, i886. Serial No. ZL'M.` (No model.)

To alzi whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Soinerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Curtain-Pole Rings, of which 'the following is a full, Vclear,and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specilication, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of a curtain or portire suspended from a curtain pole by Ineans ofmyim proved curtain-pole rings. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of my improved curtain-pole rings. Fig. 3 is a sectional ele'- vation of the same on the line x :c of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of one of my rings having a friction wheel or roller applied thereto. Fig. 5 isa sectional elevation of the same on the line y y of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a ring having africt-ion wheel or roll of slightly-different construction and arrangement applied thereto. Fig. I is a sectional elevation of the same on the line z z of Fig. 6.

The ordinary curtain-pole rings are objectionable for the reason that in drawing aside the suspended portire or drapery therin'gs,

which are connected at the bottom with the said drapery and which bear only at the top upon the pole, are swung out of their normal vertical planes and are often brought into a position to bind upon the pole, both at the top and bottom, which seriouslyT interferes with the free sliding of the said rings upon the pole and prevents the drapery from being drawn' back at the top as desired.

My invention has for its object to overcome this difficulty; and it consists in the combination, with a curtain-pole ring, of a swinging semicircular bail 0r hanger adapted to be connected with the curtain or drapery to be suspended and extending up partially around and close to the outer periphery of the ring, and having its extremities pivoted to said ring at points on opposite sides of the same on a horizontal line passing through or near the center of the ring when in positionrupon the pole, the arrangement being such that the force employed to move the ring along the pole when the curtain or drapery is drawn to one side is applied through the said pivoted bail in such a Inanner as to always maintain the ring in or nearly in a vertical position while being slid along the pole, and all liability of its binding thereon is thus entirely avoided, and its free movement in either direction at all times insured. v

In the said drawings, A represents a curtain-pole ring, which may be formed of metal, Wood, or other suitable material. To the outside of this ring upon opposite .sides is pivoted at points a, on a horizontal line passing through or near the center of the ring when in position upon the pole, and in a vertical plane passing through the entire circumference of the ring, a swinging semicircular bail or hanger, B, preferably composed of wire and having a central eye or socket, c, at its bottom for the reception or the ordinary hook which is attached to the upper edge of the portire or other drapery D suspended from the rings A, which are adapted to slide upon the pole G, the latter being supported, as usual, by brackets d, as seen in Fig. 1. When the drapery D is drawn to one side or the other, the bails or hangers B are swung on their pivots a out of their usual vertical positions, while the rings A remain in vertical or nearly vertical planes, as seen in Fig. l, the draft or force exerted to slide the rings along the pole being thus applied in such manner as to keep the rings always in or nearly in a vertical position as they are slid along the pole, thereby eft'ectually preventing them from binding on the same, as would be liable to occur if the rings themselves were drawn at an angle, as heretofore, and consequently, where my improved rings are employed, no difficulty is experienced in drawing the drapery at the top along the pole in either direction when desired, much trouble and annoyance being thus avoided. To still further facilitate the free sliding movementofthe ring Aalong thepole G,Isome times provide the said ring at its top with an anti-friction roll, H, which is preferably made in the form of a hollow sleeve, like that of a buckle, as seen in Figs. 4 and 5, and is of such diameter and so arranged as to form a portion of both the inner and outer periphery of the -IOO ring, the part f of the ring, upon which the sleeve isl fitted, being made straight to enable it to rotate freely thereon. If preferred, a Section of the ring may be entirel y removed and v a space thus formed for the receptionvof a wheel or solid roll, as seen in Figs. 6 and 7,

which revolves von a pin, g, and forms, like the tubular roll in Figs. 4 and 5, a portion of the inner and outer periphery of the ring. These antifriction rolls, however, form no part of my invention, as they have been employed in connection with curtain-pole rings in many different Ways; hence I lay no claim to an anti friction roll applied to a curtain-pole ring.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Fatent, is

The combination, with a curtain-pole ring,

vof a swinging semieircular bail or hanger, B,

adapted to beeonnected with the curtain or drapery to be suspended and extending up In presence of P. E. TEsoHEMAoHER, EDWIN F. EDGETT. 

